Kobryn

Kobryn is a metropolis within the Brest Region of Belarus and the middle of the Kobryn District. The metropolis is positioned in the southwestern nook of Belarus where the Mukhavets River and Dnepr-Bug Canal meet. The town lies about 52 km east of the town of Brest. Kobryn is placed at Latitude 52.12.58N and Longitude 24.21.59E. It is at an altitude of 485 feet. It is a station at the Brest – Homiel railway line. As of 1995, the population became round 51,500. Sometimes the call of the city is written as Kobrin that's a transliteration from Russian. In prehistoric times it turned into inhabited with the aid of the historic Baltic Yotvingian tribe. At diverse times,

the metropolis had belonged to Lithuania and Poland, Imperial Russia, and the Byelorussian SSR following World War II. First noted within the 11th century, for the reason that late thirteenth century the town become owned by the princes of Volhynian Vladimir. In the early 14th century the town formed a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. A seat of a powiat authorities, between 1589 and 1766 it was a free town of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, positioned on Magdeburg Law.